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Making sense of heritability : = how not to think about behavior genetics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making sense of heritability :/ Neven Sesardic.
Reminder of title:	how not to think about behavior genetics /
Author:	Sesardić, Neven,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Nature and nurture. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487378
ISBN:	9780511487378 (ebook)

Making sense of heritability : = how not to think about behavior genetics /
Sesardić, Neven,1949-

Making sense of heritability :how not to think about behavior genetics /Neven Sesardic. - 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The nature-nurture debate : a premature burial? -- A tangle of interactions : separating genetic and environmental influences -- Lost in correlations? direct and indirect genetic causes -- From individuals to groups : genetics and race -- Genes and malleability -- Science and sensitivity.

In this book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. He critically examines the view - very widely accepted by scientists, social scientists and philosophers of science - that heritability estimates have no causal implications and are devoid of any interest. In a series of clearly written chapters he introduces the reader to the problems and subjects the arguments to close philosophical scrutiny. His conclusion is that anti-heritability arguments are based on conceptual confusions and misunderstandings of behavioural genetics. His book is a fresh and compelling intervention in a very contentious debate.

ISBN: 9780511487378 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

566753
Nature and nurture.

LC Class. No.: BF341 / .S47 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 155.7

Making sense of heritability : = how not to think about behavior genetics /
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